We received this email from Bimbos management late in the day on Friday and appended it to our post about various Capitol Hill-related Today Show appearances — including a segment with Victoria Liss. Here is an update from the E Pike restaurant and watering hole on the Andrew Meyer incident. Bimbos is a CHS advertiser.

We believe that every individual should be treated with respect. The recent incident at Bimbos is completely unfortunate. We have addressed the incident with our employees and have taken the necessary actions to protect them as well as our customers. Like many small business owners with limited resources we completely underestimated the impact of social media. We have read many of the responses and continue to address them internally. Bimbos has always been known as a place where individual expression is something we value, but this incident has forced us to take notice how actions can affect the community around us.

Thanks,

Jeff Ofelt

Some of the recent light rail activities on Capitol Hill haven’t been exactly calming. Some of the work is the equivalent of interplanetary adventure. And then there is this guy.

Bruce Gray, Sound Transit spokesperson, wasn’t exactly enthusiastic when we told him we wanted to write about the job. The role is “Operator,” we were informed. “And his duties include moving mud from point A to point B,” Gray helpfully added.

Gray may not be impressed but CHS thinks the job is worthy of mention, reflection and maybe even inspiration. As long as the muck keeps flowing into the muck pile, the Operator digs it out, lifts it up and deposits it in a waiting truck to be carried away to parts north, south and east.

Capitol Hill was the scene for sharing some bad news Friday morning as outgoing head of the state’s Department of Social and Health Services completed her tour of Washington with a sixth and final budget cut town hall. Susan Dreyfus spoke in front of a full Bloedel Hall at St. Mark’s as she detailed the impact of another $883 million in state social services and health cuts that are being proposed as part of continued belt-tightening in Olympia. 

(Images: CHS)

The Seattle Times reports that DSHS must deal with cutbacks at the state and the federal level:

The state faces a nearly $2 billion budget shortfall and Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked all major agencies to submit plans reflecting both 5 percent and 10 cuts. DSHS could end up slashing more than $573 million in state funding; the agency is preparing to lose another $300 million in federal funding, Dreyfus said.

Since July 2009, DSHS officials say they have reduced state and federal spending by $2.2 billion. Ninety percent of the cuts have been to programs that benefit children, families, the elderly, the disabled and other clients.

Dreyfus said the budget reductions  have forced her and other DSHS leaders  to focus solely on the state’s most vulnerable residents.

The Stranger also recently detailed what the cuts could mean for DSHS:

Having already lost $2.2 billion in funding over the last three years, shed 2,903 employees, and reduced services all over the state, DSHS recently sent the governor $866 million more in possible cuts, including the total elimination of the state’s food assistance program (which would save $18 million). The food program serves about 13,000 legal immigrants who don’t qualify for federal food assistance because of their alien status.

There’s plenty more potential hurt, including DSHS’s proposed closure of two wards at Western State Hospital that currently serve 52 patients with conditions such as traumatic brain injury or dementia (savings: $5 million) and reductions in foster care, juvenile rehabilitation, and substance abuse treatment programs (savings: $118 million).

Saturday, October 22

• Take a walk on the Viaduct:
  

  When Saturday, Oct. 22 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Public allowed to walk to the top deck of the viaduct.1 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Celebration event with state and local elected officials.

  Where? In the construction area between Alaskan Way South and First Avenue South just north of the 1051 First Ave. S. building. Access the event via Alaskan Way South at South King Street.

  How far will I be able to walk on the viaduct? The public will be able to walk up to the top deck of the viaduct using the northbound ramp near South Royal Brougham Way. Walkers will then be able to head south to view ongoing demolition and the construction recently completed nearby. The walking area is limited in order to keep the public out of the way of construction and inspection activities.”

• E Madison’s Bottleneck Lounge holds its annual Hillside Harvest Feast this Saturday. Skillet will be on hand to serve up the chow. Doors at 2p, Skillet at 3p until the food runs out.
• Weekly children’s story time at Elliott Bay, 11:30a
• Century Ballroom’s weekly flea market — no market this week!
• “Emerald City Aikido celebrates 20 years on Capitol Hill with an open house and public demonstration Sat Oct 22 at 11:15AM” — 19th Ave E
• Beginning Sewing – Bag at Stitches
• Barbara Johns at Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Lawrence Lessig: The Corruption of Congress at Town Hall
• Wheedle’s Groove at Vito’s
• OmYoga Benefit for Jubilee Womens Center at Electric Tea Garden, 6p

Emily Griffin Beard will lead an all levels Vinyasa Flow accompanied by live music from San Francisco’s DJ J-Boogie. $25 gets you in the class and includes a copy of the CD. All proceeds will benefit Capitol Hill’s own Jubilee Women’s Center, which provides housing and services for homeless women. Tickets available on Brown Paper Tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/201074

Sunday, October 23

• Music Center of the NW: Fall Faculty Gala at Town Hall
• Arm Balancing – Lifting Off with Grace at 8 Limbs Yoga
• Mixtape Reading 3# at Cairo
• “New York poet and librettist Martine Bellen, currently teaching at The Evergreen State College as a faculty member, returns to Elliott Bay to read from her seventh collection of poems, GHOSTS!” at Elliott Bay
  

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Monday, October 24

• Science: Ian McAllister & Andrew Nikiforuk:Wolves, Beetles & a Pipeline at Town Hall
• Road Safety Summit at City Hall
• Central Co-op’s Fresh Starts: A Food Day Event
• Special midnight on-sale opening for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 at Elliott Bay Book Company

Start: 10/25/2011 12:00 am
One of the books we are most excited about, in some time, is the long-awaited English-language translation of Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, 1Q84 (Knopf). Published here in a single volume, at over 900 pages, everyone wanting it won’t want to wait. So—with some details yet to devise—we will celebrate by being open at midnight Monday night to make 1Q84 available. It is a fabulous, amazing book. A few here can attest to that already. Those eager to read and know more about 1Q84 should also mark Monday, November 14 on the calendar. That evening, noted translator Jay Rubin, who translated two of the three parts of 1Q84, is scheduled to be at Elliott Bay to discuss the book and its author. Please check back on our website for updated information on this evening. This will be fun.

Tuesday, October 25

• Write Out writers happy hour at Hugo House
• Seattle Architecture Foundation: Seattle Reservoir Lid Parks Projects at Town Hall

The Seattle Architecture Foundation launches a six-part lecture series, Interacting with Design, which explores the ways people and communities can interact with design in small and large developments. The first lecture by Guy Michaelson and Jonathan Morley of the Seattle landscape architecture firm Berger Partnership, shares developments for the city’s reservoir lid parks, along with the vision, design, and process behind them. These parks redefine the use of previously unusable public lands and simultaneously generate new community developments around them: The neighborhoods become a draw, and future growth is encouraged. Presented by Seattle Architecture Foundation.Advance tickets are $20/$10 students and SAF members/$100 for all six lectures, at Brown Paper Tickets or 800/838-3006.

King County Election – if you’re pro gay rights, vote as follows:

Lloyd Hara

Mark Greene

Larry Phillips

Michael Spearman

Gael Tarleton

Dean Willard

Jean Godden

Brad Meacham

Tom Rasmussen

David Schraer

Sally Clark

Sharon Peaslee

Sherry Carr

Seattle School District No. 1 Director Dist. No. 3 WRITE IN! John Dunn

Steve Sundquist

pass this on please! Love George Bridgforth

• Police say somebody threw a rock through the front glass door of Plaza Select Market in the 1000 block of Madison early Wednesday morning. SPD notes that the burglar in the incident must have been small in stature to be able to slip in through the busted door and a 10-inch gap below a metal security gate. The report says the rock-tossing burglar made off with 25 cartons of cigarettes and an unknown quantity of lottery tickets. You can’t win if you don’t play.
• Police found a man who appeared to be homeless crying hysterically on E Pine Monday just before midnight with cuts on both of his palms. According to the report, the man told police that he was attacked after three men came up to him and accused the victim of saying something to their girlfriends. Details are below. Apparently not in need of an ambulance, the man was taken to a shelter:

Kara- Boylston & Pine

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